Literature & Literary Terms

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Q21."The Scarlet Letter" was written by:

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A Mark Twain
B Nathaniel Hawthorne
C Herman Melville
D Edgar Allan Poe
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Correct Answer: B

"The Scarlet Letter" (1850) was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Q22."Silas Marner" was written by:

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A Thomas Hardy
B George Eliot
C Charles Dickens
D Jane Austen
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Correct Answer: B

"Silas Marner" (1861) was written by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans).

Q23."The Waste Land" is a poem by:

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A W.B. Yeats
B T.S. Eliot
C Ezra Pound
D W.H. Auden
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Correct Answer: B

"The Waste Land" (1922) was written by T.S. Eliot.

Q24."Treasure Island" was written by:

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A Daniel Defoe
B Robert Louis Stevenson
C Mark Twain
D Jules Verne
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Correct Answer: B

"Treasure Island" (1883) was written by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Q25.Which literary device is used in "The wind whispered through the trees"?

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A Metaphor
B Simile
C Personification
D Hyperbole
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Correct Answer: C

Personification gives human qualities to non-human things.

Q26.Who is the author of "The Republic"?

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A Aristotle
B Plato
C Socrates
D Homer
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Correct Answer: B

"The Republic" is a philosophical work by Plato.

Q27."Don Quixote" was written by:

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A Dante Alighieri
B Miguel de Cervantes
C Voltaire
D Giovanni Boccaccio
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Correct Answer: B

"Don Quixote" was written by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.

Q28."I have told you a million times" is an example of:

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A Simile
B Metaphor
C Hyperbole
D Personification
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Correct Answer: C

Hyperbole means deliberate exaggeration for effect.

Q29."Iqbal Namah" was written by:

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A Faiz Ahmad Faiz
B Allama Iqbal
C Ahmad Faraz
D Habib Jalib
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Correct Answer: B

"Iqbal Namah" is a work by Allama Iqbal.

Q30."Things Fall Apart" was written by:

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A Chinua Achebe
B Wole Soyinka
C Ngugi wa Thiong'o
D Ama Ata Aidoo
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Correct Answer: A

"Things Fall Apart" (1958) was written by Chinua Achebe.

Q31.A play with a sad ending is called a:

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A Comedy
B Satire
C Tragedy
D Farce
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Correct Answer: C

A tragedy ends in disaster, especially for the protagonist.

Q32.A sonnet has how many lines?

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A 12
B 14
C 16
D 18
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Correct Answer: B

A sonnet is a 14-line poem.

Q33.The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called:

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A Assonance
B Rhyme
C Alliteration
D Onomatopoeia
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Correct Answer: C

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound.

Q34.What literary device is used in "Life is a journey"?

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A Simile
B Metaphor
C Personification
D Alliteration
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Correct Answer: B

A metaphor makes a direct comparison without "like" or "as".

Q35.What literary device is used in "She is as brave as a lion"?

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A Metaphor
B Simile
C Hyperbole
D Irony
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Correct Answer: B

A simile uses "like" or "as" to compare.

Q36.Which period of English literature came first?

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A Renaissance
B Romantic
C Victorian
D Elizabethan
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Correct Answer: D

The Elizabethan period preceded the Renaissance in literary history.

Q37.Who wrote "Frankenstein"?

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A Jane Austen
B Mary Shelley
C Emily Bronte
D Charlotte Bronte
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Correct Answer: B

"Frankenstein" (1818) was written by Mary Shelley.

Q38.Who wrote "Moby-Dick"?

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A Mark Twain
B Herman Melville
C Nathaniel Hawthorne
D Henry James
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Correct Answer: B

"Moby-Dick" (1851) was written by Herman Melville.

Q39.Who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?

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A William Wordsworth
B Percy Shelley
C John Keats
D Lord Byron
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Correct Answer: C

"Ode to a Nightingale" was written by John Keats.

Q40.Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?

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A William Shakespeare
B Geoffrey Chaucer
C Edmund Spenser
D John Milton
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Correct Answer: B

"The Canterbury Tales" were written by Geoffrey Chaucer.